Rate My Professor Pierre Fayad

Currently, Dr. Fayad serves as Chief of the Vascular Division, Director of the Vascular Neurology and Stroke Program, Program Director of the Nebraska Stroke Center, and Joint Residency Program Director with Creighton University. He also directs the stroke center at Nebraska Medicine, leading a multidisciplinary Stroke Code Team and overseeing an outpatient neurological clinic. His research specializes in vascular neurology and stroke, with participation in NIH-funded clinical trials on acute stroke treatment and prevention. He has authored over 50 articles and book chapters, including contributions to the CREST trial published as "Long-Term Results of Carotid Stenting versus Endarterectomy" in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2008, and more recent work on mobile stroke units in 2020. Dr. Fayad received the American Heart Association Physician of the Year award in 2009, holds fellowships as FAHA and FAAN, and has chaired committees for the American Stroke Association, including its Advisory Committee. Under his leadership, the stroke center achieved Joint Commission certification as Nebraska's first Primary Stroke Center and sustained American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Achievement Awards.